Technical Artist - Studio Elevation (Remote within the UK) New

We are looking for a Technical Artist to drive forward cutting-edge visuals, provide technical guidance and define art workflow and pipelines. They will be the bridge between the art and code departments and will work with the teams to further personal development, mentoring and peer critiquing. They will help to build an excellent creative environment, fostering self-improvement and ownership, whilst establishing pipelines and processes that empower discovery whilst refining intuitive, aspirational, awe-inspiring games.,

• Performance and accountability - a commitment and focus to producing work of the highest standard to time and budget.
  
  Communication and relationships - ability to work collaboratively with the wider team at elevation.
• Ability to troubleshoot in cross-discipline areas that fall into their experience, including lighting, VFX, and Environment Art.
• A strong set of core skills - including a strong understanding of developing performant shaders in Unreal, an understanding of Niagara's particle system-VFV optimizations, as well as optimizing systems and structures within game engines for different platforms.
Requirements About you The skills you'll need:
• Experience in Unreal & Shader Graph
• Experience in Maya/Blender
• Experience in HLSL
• A degree or equivalent qualification & at least 4 years of experience in real time game development.
• Continuously improving - application of this to continuously learn and innovate in their discipline.
• Problem solving - application of this to solve complex Technical Art problems.
The nice to haves:
• Experience in Photoshop/Substance
• Scripting in Python
• Knowledge in C++
  
  We are nDreams - we develop and publish the world's most immersive VR games. You may know us as the team behind Ghostbusters: Rise of the Ghost Lord, Synapse, Phantom: Covert Ops, Fracked, and the recently released FRENZIES. With humble beginnings as an independent studio, we combine amazing projects and considerable scale with a personal, caring touch.
We believe the best workplaces and games are created by diverse, happy and safe teams. We're committed to building a culture centred on respect, wellbeing and balance. It's crucial we make our games and industry more accessible to underrepresented communities. We strive to live this through the people we hire, the experiences we create and the causes we support.


• Permanent role.
• Full-time (37.5 hours per week).
• Fully remote within the UK.
• The salary for this role is competitive and dependent on experience.